My Story (1) By Lee Dickey III

I have more memories of Travis than I can recall. I first met Travis when I moved to Lincoln from East Millinocket. I fortunately already knew Larry Misiaszek and the first person Larry introduced me to was Travis. We became good friends right away. Travis became one of my closest friends in a short period of time. I remember the time that Travis had a bunch of us guys over to his house to play capture the flag in the woods. We all played until the late hours of the night and when we finished and were talking about it back in his house, Travis and Eric Rose asked who the guy with the bright white shirt and pants was. None of us had on white that night, we wanted to hide in the dark so we all had on black or dark clothes. At first they thought it was me that they saw, but I was no where near the location of the ghost that they claimed to have seen. A few weeks later Mr. Reed our English teacher assigned us an assignment dealing with Folk Lore or something like that. So we all decided to do a video about the alien in the woods and I would dress up as the white ghost. I had a white hooded Mexican poncho, so I used that. I was filmed as the white ghost and the others were "interviewed" about what they saw. We also did some reenactments of that night. I stayed over at Travis's for the entire weekend before the project was due and Travis and I used nothing more than a VCR and camcorder to edit the video. We turned it into an "Unsolved Mysteries" segment. Only if we thought to make it into a scary movie. We could have made the first "Blair Witch Project" type of movie. There were many times after Travis got his driver's license that Liz would send him to the store to pick up supplies. Many of those times Travis would come by my place and we would go to McDonalds. So Liz, if Travis wasn't very hungry come dinner time, you know why. :) Travis had the greatest sense of humor and I do not remember him ever getting mad about anything. There was this one time after I joined the Navy that I came home for Christmas. Travis and I went shopping and we went into the video game store at the mall. I was looking around and Travis was looking at the newest John Madden Football game. Travis put the game back on the shelf and walked away only for the entire shelf to empty onto the floor. Travis reacted by putting his hand on the back of his head with a look on his face that said, "I wonder how this happened. I know it wasn't me." It was such a good reaction that the guy working there said that was the best reaction he had ever seen. Travis didn't smile or get mad at all. For some reason this memory sticks in my mind I send my love and prayers to Travis's family and all of his friends. Lee Dickey III